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In the third installment of their horror series, Hays and McFall (The Cowboy and the Vampire: Blood and Whiskey, 2014, etc.) return to LonePine, Wyoming, as human Tucker and vampire Lizzie discover that they have a whole new type of bloodsucker to worry about. The world of vampires is dying out, as they’re unable to…

Here’s something we wrote for the Ramblings From This Chick blog. It’s a funny look at a not so funny topic — the time Clark almost blew his leg off with a .44 mag. In Blood and Whiskey, the second book in The Cowboy and Vampire Collection, there’s plenty of action. Since cowboys are involved,…

I think it’s fair to say that if Clark gets a good part of the credit for the action-packed western theme in The Cowboy and Vampire Collection, I am responsible for the focus on spiritual components and the Near Death Experience (NDE). I came very close to dying in a car crash when I was young, closer…

In this fourth book in The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection, Lizzie, Tucker, and the others will have to put aside their differences when an ancient enemy emerges from the shadows. It’s been a lonely two years for Tucker in Wyoming. He still has his dog, Rex, and his survivalist friend Lenny, but he now…

Increasingly, I’ve noted an uptick of blog posts and references to “cosmic consciousness,” a state-of-being named by Richard Bucke in 1901. I read Bucke’s book Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind more than a decade ago after I stumbled upon it in a footnote of some other equally dusty and…